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cumvent thal one by giving the name of a well-known lads who might: have been responsible for my recruitment Tt would have been desperately difficult. of course. if the Securin Service had been able to check the files | had drawn dunag mm service at headquarters, since that would have proved that my interests had roamed far and wide bevond ms iegtimate duties My only possible defense, thal Yo was passionatel, imieresied in the service for jty own sake. would have carried Ittle conviction Bur} knew that the tallies were perradicalls de- stroyed. and thought it vers unlikely that they would have survived the holocaust of unwanted paper thal toch Place after the war There were also the number of cases which | had vhandied such as the Volkov case, which had gone wrong for reasons which had never been established with Ceriainty Bul ever, one was suscep. tile to explanation without reference fo myself, and there were two impor- tant Cates. those of Mas and Fuchs which. despuc my bes! efforts, had Bone right and resolted tn success for the Britsh and American antelligence SETVICES. The really difficult problem was to explain away ms felations with Bur- pess. J shared very few of his tastes. vers few of his fmends. and few of his mtellectuat interests The essential bond between us was. of course. polit. cal. and that was a point that had to be blurred 10 the best of my abiliry Chain of suspicion Another difficulty was the actual course of ms career The more i con- sidered nt. the bess I hiked nu. There were the known jefi-wing associations al Cambridge and suspected Com- MuUntst actrvity in Vienna, then the complete break with ms Communist frends in England. followed all too close, hy cultivation of Nazis! en London and Berlin. then the choice fof all piaces! of France Spain an which to carve out & journalistic career. then the entry inio the secret Service with Burgess’s help and my emergence on the service as an expert on anteSoviet and anti-Communist work. and finally my foreknowledge of the action to be taken agains! Maclean and the latter's escape. 11 Wat an ugly picture 1] was faced with the inescapable conclusion that) could not hope to prove my ippocence That conclusion did mat depress me unduth A strong presumplian of ms guilt might be good enough for an intelligence officer But il was not enough for a lawyer What he needed was evidence The chain of circum. slantial evidence thal might he brought against me was uncomfortably Jong But. as | examined each angle link of the cham, ] thought I could break it and ifevery timk was broken singly. what temained of the chain? Despite ‘His Sowiel superiors seni Phithy te Spain io eps on General Frances forces during the cil war While there. Tar Times engaged him as its Correspondent hry Old Hoy Network qualificahons were impeccable When he returned to Png. land fis Russian bosses give him another assignment Penelrate the = pro-Maz: Froups in Briain This he did with can- Spicucup success, om later years he wae more jikely to be accused of being & fascist than a Communist APRIL, 1968 all appearances. I thoughi, my chances were good Jt was an FB) case, and I could not dipeuss its intricacies with CLA with. out running the mah of irritating Hoover and his assistant director, both of whom 1] was anxious 10 soothe So Tconfined ms talks with CIA officials to the overt details of the case which became known through the press. fomewhat late and more than some- what inaccurate | had no fear of the bumbling Allen Dulles: years later J was 10 be puzzled by President Ken- Pedy's mistake in taking him seriously over the Bay of Pigs. The next few davs dragged. I ex. perienced some mild social embarrass- iment when the news (of defection by Burgess and Maclean] broke with all the carefree embellishment of the Popular press One of the snootier of the embassy) wives gave me & glacial Stare at one of the ambassador's gar- den parties, But London remained ominously stlent One telegram arrived from London saying thet “it was understood" that I knew Burgess per- sonally, Gould T throw any light on his behavior? But the one J] was ex- Pecung was @ most immediate. per- sonal. decipher-yourself telegram from the Chief summoning me home At last the summons came. but it took & most curious. thoughi-provoking form. An intelligence official special: izing in the fabrication of deception Material flew into Washingion on rou- tine business. He paid me a courtesy WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING A _ BUSINESS EVEN A 5¢ STAMP HAS TO WORK FOR YOU. 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